FOURTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

SAINTS OF THE DAY ~ FEAST DAY: JULY 12, 2024

Greetings, beloved family and Happy Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time!

On this special feast day, with special intention through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary, and the Saints, we humbly pray for justice, peace and unity in our families and our divided and conflicted world. We continue to pray for the sick and dying. We especially pray for our loved ones who have recently died and we continue to pray for the repose of their gentle souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, may the Lord receive them into the light of Eternal Kingdom. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. May their gentle souls through the mercy of God rest in perfect peace with our Lord Jesus Christ… Amen 🙏 ✝️🕯✝️🕯✝️🕯

PRAYER FOR THE DEAD: In your hands, O Lord, we humbly entrust our brothers and sisters. In this life you embraced them with your tender love; deliver them now from every evil and bid them eternal rest. The old order has passed away: welcome them into paradise, where there will be no sorrow, no weeping or pain, but fullness of peace and joy with your Son & the Holy Spirit forever & ever. Amen🙏

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Today’s Bible Readings: Friday, July 12, 2024
Reading 1, Hosea 14:2-10
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14, 17
Gospel, Matthew 10:16-23

SAINTS OF THE DAY: MEMORIAL OF SAINT JOHN GUALBERT, ABBOT; SAINT VERONICA; SAINTS LOUIS AND ZELIE MARTIN AND SAINTS NABOR AND FELIX, MARTYRS ~ FEAST DAY: JULY 12TH: Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Saint John Gualbert, Abbot; Saint Veronica; Saints Louis and Zélie Martin and Saints Nabor and Felix, Martyrs. Through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and the Saints on this feast day, we humbly pray for all marriages, especially those facing challenges, we pray for those going through difficulties during these challenging times, for the poor and the needy, for peace, love and unity in our families and our world. We pray for the sick and dying, especially those suffering from cancers and other terminal diseases. And we continue to pray for the Church, the Clergy, for persecuted christians, for the conversion of sinners, and Christians all over the world.🙏 

SAINT JOHN GUALBERT, ABBOT: St. John Gualbert is also known as Giovanni Gualberto (c. 993-1073) was an Italian Roman Catholic abbot and the founder of the Vallumbrosan Order. St. John was born into a noble Florentine family about the year 985. Although he enjoyed the benefits of an early Christians education, his youthful heart was soon attracted to the vanities of the world. St. Gualbert was a predictably vain individual who sought pleasure in vanities and romantic intrigues. A painful incident was the means God made use of to open his eyes. Hugo, his only brother, had been murdered and St. John was so overtaken with grief that he resolved to avenge his death. His father was arranging for him to become a soldier when Hugo, the only other child, was murdered by a relative. Gualbert then set out for revenge of his older brother’s murder. It was Good Friday, and Gualbert, accompanied by an armed escort, met the murderer in a narrow pass in Florence. There was no way to avoid one another. They met, and the murderer, with arms crossed on his breast, threw himself at Gualbert’s feet. Moved by his plea for mercy and the remembrance of Christ’s dying act of forgiveness, he spared the murderer’s life and lifted him up as a brother. St. Gualbert continued his journey. Arriving at the Church of St. Minias, he prayed before a picture of the Crucified which appeared to move its head toward him. Thereupon he determined to dedicate his life to God in spite of his father’s opposition. After this encounter, he went straight to a monastery and begged to join. As a sign of his earnest desire, he shaved off all his hair. The abbot, who had been reluctant to admit St. John because he feared the displeasure of his influential father, agreed and St. John lived in the monastery and took the habit of a monk and soon became a member of the Order of Saint Benedict and in a short time attained such perfection that his life and work were a model for others. He made such great progress in virtue that after the death of the Abbot the monks wished to impose this dignity upon him, but St. John absolutely refused to accept it. Sometimes, later, he left the monastery with one companion in quest of great solitude and strict life.

Discovering that many of the orders that he had looked into joining were tainted with the corruption that was rampant in the Church at the time, he decided that God was calling him to find something new. Having visited the hermitage of Camaldoli, the Saint finally settled at Valle Ombrosa in Tuscany. On a plot of land east of Florence called Vallombrosa, together with men who were equally committed to observing a more austere and stricter following of the primitive Rule of St. Benedict, he founded his own congregation, the Order of Vallombrosa, a humble monastery devoted to contemplation and prayer and care of the poor and sick. He became the founder of the Vallombrosian monks, a branch of the Benedictine family. St. John is renowned for his humility, holiness of life, and his wisdom,  he refused any office of privilege, and declined to receive holy orders of any kind, he would never allow himself to be promoted, even to Minor Orders. His charity for the poor caused him to make a rule that no indigent person should be sent away without an alms. He founded several monasteries, reformed others, and succeeded in eradicating the vice of simony from the part of the country where he lived. St. John condemned nepotism 
and all simoniacal actions and was known for the pureness and meekness of his faith. Even Popes held him in high esteem, and he was often consulted by Popes. He died on July 12, 1073, at about eighty years of age. Miracles were reported at his tomb after his death. Pope Celestine III canonized St. John Gualbert on October 24, 1193. The Vallombrosan Benedictines are still existent today, mainly in the region of Tuscany and Lombardy, and number a handful of monasteries. Saint John Gualbert and his model of forgiveness is well worth reflecting upon today, especially during times of social unrest. St. John Gualbert is the Patron Saint of Forest workers; Foresters; Park services; Park rangers; Parks; Badia di Passignano; Vallumbrosan Order; Italian Forest Corps; Brazilian forests.

PRAYER: Lord, amid the things of this world, let us be wholeheartedly committed to heavenly things in imitation of the example of evangelical perfection You have given us in St. John the Abbot. Amen🙏

SAINT VERONICA: St. Veronica (1st c.) is also known as Berenike, was a woman from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD. St. Veronica is one of the holy women of Jerusalem who accompanied Jesus on the Way of the Cross. Out of her sorrow and compassion, she offered Jesus her veil to wipe the blood and sweat from his face as He carried the cross on the way to His crucifixion. In gratitude for her simple yet gracious act, Jesus left an image of His face on the cloth. According to tradition, when St. Veronica saw Jesus fall beneath the weight of the cross. He carried to His pending crucifixion, she was so moved with pity she pushed through the crowd past the Roman Soldiers to reach Jesus. She used her veil (sometimes called the “sudarium”) to wipe the blood and sweat from His face. The soldiers forced her away from Jesus even as He peered at her with gratitude. She bundled her veil and did not look at it again until she returned home. When she finally unfolded the veil (history does not clarify exactly what kind of material the veil was made from) it was imprinted with an image of Christ’s face. According to tradition, St. Veronica afterwards went to Rome and brought the cloth with her. This piece of cloth, known as Veronica’s Veil, has been venerated as a holy and miraculous image of Jesus Christ ever since. St. Veronica’s veil (the “Veronica”, also called the “Sudarium”) is one of the Vatican’s most treasured relics, kept since ancient times at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican at Rome. Annually on the occasion of the 5th Sunday of Lent, Passion Sunday, St. Peter’s Basilica displays the relics, Veronica’s veil. On the Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross) in Jerusalem there is a small chapel called the Chapel of the Holy Face that was built on the site of St. Veronica’s home and the location where the miracle took place. Tradition calls this woman “Veronica” but it has been said this might be an attributed name for her work. There are other images reputed to be St. Veronica’s Veil, including the one in Manoppello, Italy.

Some stories have alluded to St. Veronica being present at the beheading of St. John the Baptist. Others claim Veronica (Bernice) was a woman whom Jesus cured from a blood issue before His arrest in Jerusalem. There is no reference to the biography of St. Veronica in the canonical Gospels. St. Veronica’s beautiful act of kindness and charity is commemorated and represented in the Sixth of the Fourteen Stations of the Cross. St. Veronica is believed to be buried in the tomb in Soulac or in the church of St. Seurin at Bordeaux, France. St. Veronica is the Patron Saint of Laundry workers; photographers; images; pictures, Santa Veronica, San Pablo City, Laguna. St. Veronica’s feast day is July 12th.

St. Veronica ~ Pray for us 🙏

SAINTS LOUIS AND ZELIE MARTIN: Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin are best known as the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (the Little Flower), but they are models of holiness in their own right. They are only the second married couple to be canonized. Beatified on October 19, 2008 and Pope Francis canonised the couple at a ceremony in Rome on October 18, 2015 during a Vatican synod of bishops which was focusing on pastoral challenges to the family. Though they are best known as the devout parents of St Thérèse of Lisieux, the ‘Little Flower’, Saints Louis and Zélie have come to be regarded as exemplars of the vocations of parenting and family life, introducing their children to a life of holiness and God’s call in their lives. Saints Louis and Zélie are remembered for their unwavering faith even as they encountered many of the struggles families and parents will be familiar with, including cancer, death, financial worries, depression and other challenges.

Louis Martin was born in Bordeaux in 1823 and baptised Louis-Joseph-Aloys-Stanislaus. He grew up in Alençon and after school learned clock-making eventually opening his own watch-making and jewellery business on the rue du Pont-Neuf in Alençon. As a young man he wished to become a priest but it was not to be. Prayer was an important part of his life. He liked reading, fishing and walking in the countryside. His travels included his well-known pilgrimage to Rome in 1887 with his daughters Therese and Celine on the occasion of which Therese—still not fifteen years old—asked Pope Leo XIII for permission to enter Carmel. Zelie Guerin (christened Marie-Azelie) was born in 1831 near Alençon. She had a strong faith. She too wished to embrace the religious life and again it was not to be. Much is written of her great energy and capacity for work. She became a professional and talented maker of Alençon point lace and she also started her own business in Alençon. When Zelie was 26 years old she encountered Louis Martin on the Bridge of St Leonard over the Sarthe River in Alençon and had a premonition that they would marry. Three months later on July 13, 1858 the wedding took place in the Church of Notre-Dame now the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Alençon. The couple lived in Alençon, initially at 15 rue du Pont-Neuf and later at 35 rue Saint-Blaise, where St Therese was born. They had nine children only five of whom survived infancy and early childhood. The surviving children were Marie, Pauline, Leonie, Celine and Therese all of whom embraced the religious life. Marie, Pauline, Celine and Therese became Carmelite Sisters in Lisieux and were known respectively as Sr Marie of the Sacred Heart, Mother Agnes of Jesus, Sr Genevieve of the Holy Face and Sr Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face. Leonie became a Visitantine Sister, in Caen, and was known as Sr Françoise Therese. Therese, their youngest daughter, was only four-year-old when Zelie died in 1877. After this Louis and his five daughters moved to Les Buissonnets in Lisieux. In 1887 Therese asked for and received her father’s permission to enter Carmel which she did in 1888. Saints Louis and Zelie Martin were canonized on October 18, 2015 by Pope Francis during the Synod on the Family at Rome, Italy.

Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin ~ Pray for us 🙏

SAINTS NABOR AND FELIX, MARTYRS: The holy martyrs, Nabor and Felix, suffered in the persecution of Maximian. They were Christian Roman soldiers from Mauretania Caesariensis serving in the army of Emperor Maximian Hercules. Because of their Christian faith they were condemned and tried in Milan and executed by decapitation in Laus Pompeia (Lodi Vecchio) during the Great Persecution under the Roman emperor Diocletian in 303 or 304. Their bodies were interred in Milan (Martyrology). A tomb in Milan is believed to contain their relics. When Emperor Frederic Barbarossa captured Milan in the twelfth century, he gave the sacred relics to Reinald, archbishop of Cologne. Soon after, Reinald transferred the bodies of the holy martyrs to his episcopal see, where they are still venerated in one of the cathedral’s magnificent chapels.

Saint Nabor and Felix, Martyrs ~ Pray for us 🙏

SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS:

Bible Readings for today, Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time | USCCB | https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading

Gospel Reading ~ Matthew 10:16-23

“For it will not be you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you”

“Jesus said to his Apostles: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.”

In today’s Gospel reading, our Lord Jesus sends out His disciples to carry out His works ahead of Him, sending them in pairs to go forth to the many places that He Himself would be visiting, to prepare His path and to extend the outreach of His love and kindness, to fulfil everything that God had said that He would do to His people. The Lord told His disciples how they would be sent like the sheep among wolves, and there would be challenges and difficulties that they would face along their journey and missions, but they must remain firm in their faith in the Lord and they were reassured of God’s guidance, which He would give them all through the Holy Spirit, strengthening and guiding them in what they ought to do. In our Gospel reading, Jesus paints a stark picture of the hostility that His followers can expect from the surrounding society. They will be dragged before both Jewish and pagan authorities; some of them will be betrayed to those authorities by members of their own families. This was the stark reality of life for many of Jesus’ followers in the early decades, indeed the first two centuries, of the church’s existence. The sombre picture Jesus paints in the Gospel reading may seem very far from our own experience today. Yet, in every age, in every generation, there are Christians who are experiencing the kind of hostility that Jesus describes in the Gospel reading. Jesus promises His disciples that when they are handed over to governors and kings for His sake, they should not worry about how to speak or what to say because ‘what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes, because it is not you who will be speaking; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you’. There are times in the living out of our faith when we simply cannot find the right words for ourselves; we need them to come to us from the Lord. The readings assure us that the Lord stands ready to give us the words we need when the time comes, whether it is words that allow us to communicate with the Lord, as in the first reading, or words that allow us to communicate the Lord to others, as in the gospel reading. In relation to prayer, Saint Paul declares in his letter to the Romans, ‘the Spirit (of the risen Lord) helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words’. Our awareness of our ‘weakness’ creates an opening for the Lord to help us, to give us the words we need, whether for prayer or for witnessing to Him before others. In our hour of need, we can pray with confidence the prayer of today’s responsorial psalm, ‘Give me again the joy of your help; with a spirit of fervour sustain me’. We are just as much in need of the Holy Spirit today, as the first disciples were, if we are to bear witness to the Lord and all He stands for. We still need the Holy Spirit to inspire our witness to the Lord. The church is as dependant on the Holy Spirit today as it ever was. The good news is that the Holy Spirit is just as available to us today as He was in the earliest days of the church, because the Lord needs our witness today as much as He did then. Earlier in Gospel of St. Matthew, Jesus had urged His disciples, ‘Ask (keep on asking) and it will be given you’.

In our first reading today from the Book of the prophet Hosea, the Lord speaks to His people, the people of Israel in the northern kingdom, also known as Israel, in which He told them all of the call which He presented to them to return to Him, His love and His compassionate care, abandoning their sinfulness and wickedness which had caused them to turn away from God’s path and righteousness in life. The prophet Hosea at that time was sent to the Israelites at the time which was just not long before the destruction of the kingdom by the conquering Assyrians who would subjugate the kingdom of Israel and destroy its cities and towns, bringing many of its people into exile in distant and foreign lands, uprooted from their ancestral lands, the land which they had been given by the Lord from the time of their ancestors. The Lord had loved His people greatly and showed them all His providence, His guidance and protection, and yet, as highlighted in our today’s first reading, we are also reminded of how those people had disobeyed Him, offering sacrifices to the false idols and pagan gods of their neighbours, of how they had profaned the sanctity of His sanctuaries and temples, turning away from the Lord Who has always loved them and cared for them. They instead sold themselves off to the wickedness of their neighbours, to the wicked practices that were abhorrent to God, disobeying and disregarded His Law and commandments. When He sent to them His prophets and messengers to remind them, they persecuted those servants of God and hardened their hearts. But God showed them all that His love was truly great and He was indeed patient in caring and guiding them, as He had told and revealed to them through the prophet Hosea. He told them that He would eventually liberate them and bring them free from the yoke and the tyranny of those who would persecute and oppress them, just as He had done before against the Egyptians and all the others who had made His beloved people suffer and oppressed throughout their history. He would bring them to dwell once again in His loving Presence, and He would love them all again, blessing and returning them to their glorious days. Through these words, we are in fact also reminded that He also sought the same for all of us as well, all of us who are His children. That is because each and every one of us have also rebelled against God by our conscious choice to follow the temptations and the falsehoods of Satan and the other evil ones, in disobeying God and His Law, His commandments and words. We chose to listen to the evil ones, who tempted and persuaded us to give in to our desired and to worldly ambitions and glory, seeking to satisfy us with all these false pleasures and joys. But God is still ever patient in loving us and leading us all to Himself, and He never gave up on us, giving us all the means and help to allow us to find Him, to be forgiven from our sins and to be fully reconciled to Him. He sent us all His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Saviour, as the proof of all this love manifested.

As we reflect on the words of the Sacred Scriptures today, each and every one of us are reminded yet again that we have been truly blessed and beloved by the Lord, our God and Master. He has always given us His wonderful love at all times, helping and guiding us all back to His path whenever we erred and fell away from His path of righteousness and virtues in life. He has showed us His compassion and mercy as a loving Father to His children, that while He chastised and punished us for our many sins, He did all of them with the intention to discipline and help us to find the path back to Him, so that we may not be lost to Him. God has never desired our destruction and He wished for us to find our path towards salvation and eternal life through His guidance and help. Let us all therefore be the worthy, courageous and shining beacons of God’s Light, hope and truth in our world today, so that God’s Light may dispel the darkness around us, and His truth may dispel all the falsehoods and all the distractions present around us, and through His love, may all of us, by our genuine and vibrant lives accentuated by our Christian love and virtues, be the good role models and inspirations for all our fellow brothers and sisters around us. May God in His infinite grace and mercy, grant us His grace and may He bless our every good works, efforts and endeavours for His greater glory, now and always, evermore. Amen🙏

DEVOTION OF THE MONTH OF JULY:

THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS: The month of July is dedicated to the Precious Blood. The feast of the Precious Blood of our Lord was instituted in 1849 by Pius IX, but the devotion is as old as Christianity. The early Fathers say that the Church was born from the pierced side of Christ, and that the sacraments were brought forth through His Blood.

“The Precious Blood which we worship is the Blood which the Savior shed for us on Calvary and reassumed at His glorious Resurrection; it is the Blood which courses through the veins of His risen, glorified, living body at the right hand of God the Father in heaven; it is the Blood made present on our altars by the words of Consecration; it is the Blood which merited sanctifying grace for us and through it washes and beautifies our soul and inaugurates the beginning of eternal life in it.”

PRECIOUS BLOOD PRAYER: Almighty, and everlasting God, who hast appointed Thine only-begotten Son to be the Redeemer of the world, and hast been pleased to be reconciled unto us by His Blood, grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate with solemn worship the price of our salvation, that the power thereof may here on earth keep us from all things hurtful, and the fruit of the same may gladden us for ever hereafter in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord.
Amen 🙏🏾

THE POPE’S MONTHLY INTENTIONS FOR 2024: FOR THE MONTH OF JULY – FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE SICK: We pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick confer to those who receive it and their loved ones the power of the Lord and become ever more a visible sign of compassion and hope for all.

https://www.usccb.org/prayers/popes-monthly-intentions-2024

PRAYER FOR PEACE ~ POPE FRANCIS:

Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!

We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms. How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced; how much blood has been shed; how many lives have been shattered; how many hopes have been buried… But our efforts have beķķen in vain. Now, Lord, come to our ajnid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: “Never again war!”; “With war everything is lost”. Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace. Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness. Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, and may the words “division”, “hatred” and “war” be banished from the heart of every man and woman. Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be “brother”, and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam! Amen🙏

During this Ordinary Time, please let us all continue to pray for peace all over the world, particularly in Africa, the Middle East, for an end to the current war in Israel-Palestine, and the Ukraine-Russia conflicts and for peace in our families and throughout our divided and conflicted World. Amen 🙏

Prayers for Peace | https://mycatholic.life/catholic-prayers/prayers-for-peace/

PRAYER INTENTIONS: During this season of the Ordinary Time, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and all the Saints on this feast day, we humbly pray for our children and children all over the world, we pray for their health, safety and well-being, we particularly pray for those who have no one to care for them and those who are terminally ill, we pray for God’s Divine healing upon them. Every life is a gift. We pray for God’s deliverance from impossible causes or situations. We pray for the souls in Purgatory and the repose of the gentle soul of our beloved family members who recently passed away and the souls of all the faithful departed, may the Lord receive them into the light of Eternal Kingdom. For all widows and widowers. And we continue to pray for our Holy Father, Pope Francis, the Bishops, the Clergy and all those who preach the Gospel. We pray for Vocation to the Priesthood and Religious life. We particularly pray for all Youths and all Seminarians, with special intention for those Seminarians who will be ordained into Priesthood. For the Church, for persecuted Christians, for all the innocent who suffer violence due to political or religious unrest, for the conversion of sinners and Christians all over the world. Amen🙏

Let us pray:

My patient Lord, You, Who are the Savior of the World and the God of all, allowed Yourself to be falsely accused, judged, and condemned. During it all, You remained silent and spoke only when the Father spoke through You. Help me to be freed of all pride, dear Lord, so that I will speak only Your holy words, think only the thoughts inspired by You and act only on Your holy command of love. Jesus, I trust in You ~ Amen🙏

Save Us, Savior of the World. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Most Precious Blood of Jesus have mercy on us. Our Most Blessed Mother Mary, Saint John Gualbert; Saint Veronica; Saints Louis and Zélie Martin and Saints Nabor and Felix ~ Pray for us🙏

Thanking God for the gift of this day and praying for justice, peace, love, and unity in our families and our world and for God’s Divine Mercy and Grace upon us all. Have a blessed, safe, grace-filled, and relaxing weekend 🙏

Blessings and Love always, Philomena💖